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THE MIGHTIEST NIMROD OF MODERN TIMES. 



pany anything like the hunter's kick which has attended his indom- 

 itable comrade he will not only have wonders to relate on his own 

 account, but he will be a little more than fortunate if he come 

 through the trip with a skin entirely whole. 



It was while hunting in Mashonaland, beyond the Lundaza 

 river, when weakened by fever, that Selous came upon a herd of 

 nearly 200 elephants. Besides his weakness he was handicapped 

 by riding a sulky and irritable horse. 









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CHASED BY AN ENKAGED ELEPHANT. 



Nevertheless, he picked out the finest tusker of that vast herd, 

 rode within 100 yards of him and shot him through the lungs. 



At that instant a powerful cow elephant wheeled and charged 

 Selous. He succeeded in spurring his horse into the thick brush and 

 the elephant abandoned the chase. Selous promptly resumed the 

 role of pursuer and attacked the herd, one after another. 



It was almost suicide, for he sustained charges by huge ele- 

 phants that made two 3^ards to his horse's one, and once, dismount- 

 ing, he left his horse to its fate, in the hope of being himself over- 



